Bio

The hospital in Eufaula, Alabama stopped delivering babies a few years before he came along, so his folks drove on over to Cuthbert, Georgia and Michael Christian Hamrick was born there in July of 1989. Shortly after, they drove on back to Eufaula, Alabama where Hamrick and his 7 brothers and sisters would spend their childhood.

They had no TV when they were children so Hamrick’s mother let them paint on the floors and walls of their house. Once they grew up, he just kept on painting.

After studying Chemical Engineering at Auburn University, Hamrick began living and creating sculptures and paintings in an empty cotton shipping warehouse in Opelika, Alabama and intermittently hitchhiking through the United States.
After a few years he got in a $200 used car and drove straight over to San Francisco only stopping once (in the Mojave Desert when that car broke down). Hamrick found home living in a Robotic Burlesque theater while creating murals, paintings, and sculpture in and around San Francisco and the Bay Area, working in prop production studios, as well as taking on art projects for various entities venturing out to Burning Man.

Hamrick would go on to travel, paint, study, and exhibit in Paris, Stockholm, and Zurich as well as parts of Central and South America before landing in New York City. During his time in New York, Hamrick worked with internationally renown theaters, film-makers, architects, museums, and artists on collaborative projects, jobs, and exhibitions as well as keeping an active, prolific studio practice.

In August of 2021, Hamrick returned to Eufaula, Alabama where he currently lives and holds his studio practice, gardens, and takes painting lessons from his 4 year old.